At Get Cultured we handcraft super-powered beverages using ancient, probiotic cultures.

Here at 'Get Cultured!' we are passionate about naturally fermented probiotic beverages that are good for the gut. Our range of beverages are made with special, naturally occurring probiotic cultures that have been used in traditional cultures all around the globe throughout written and unwritten history, as part of their regular diet for good health. We encourage everyone to 'Get Cultured!' with our drinks and add the rich plethora of minerals, acids, enzymes and probiotic flora back into our diets today, to promote excellent health and wellbeing.

Our drinks are available at selected retail shops and markets in the Bay of Plenty as well as online via our 'SHOP' link above.

Kombucha

(Pronounced ‘kom-BOO-cha’)

Kombucha is a fermented tea beverage and could be described as refreshingly tart with a light effervescence and refreshing tang.

The tea is brewed with a naturally occurring acetic acid culture called a Kombucha SCOBY (Symbiotic Colony Of Bacteria & Yeast).

We give the Kombucha SCOBY organic sugar and organic teas as it feeds on sucrose and tannins, and then we add organic tisanes for great flavour, all made with our all-natural triple-filtered cloud juice, and in return the culture gives us a beautiful beverage rich in enzymes, minerals and beneficial acids, which are a great addition to a healthy diet and lifestyle.

Because of this, Kombucha is making a stronger daily appearance in cafes and health shops so demand is constantly going up.More kombucha info at www.kombucha.co.nz

You can find this product at the markets we attend, and in selected stores in the Tauranga region

Tibicos

(Pronounced ‘tuh-BEE-cos’)

Tibicos (also known by the misnomer 'Water Kefir') is a fruit soda, made by feeding Tibi (another type of SCOBY) sugar-water solutions and/or fruit juice. Tibi look like little crystals, and can be found naturally occurring on pads of the Opuntia cactus (the Prickly Pear) in their native home of Mexico. Central Americans call the fermented drink made by these Tibi ‘Tibicos’.

We feed the Tibi organic raw sugar as it feeds on the sucrose and the minerals, then add our very own all-natural triple-filtered cloud juice. In return the culture gives us a beverage with a wide spectrum of probiotic flora. We then ferment this beverage again with fruit juices for awesome flavour and lots of bubbles!

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Only available at the markets and special events, flavours are:Apple & Berry / Grape / Mango / Guava

Ginger Beer - the orginal and New Zealands only probiotic version.

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Our ginger beer is not a simple brew made with brewer’s yeast, nor is it the childhood-experiment style brew made with a mere ginger skin ‘Ginger Bug’; instead our special brew is made with a now-rare culture called ‘Ginger Beer Plant’, or ‘DSMZ Strain 2472’ as it is known as at the Leibniz Institute – the German Culture Bank (yeah, apparently that’s a thing). Like the Tibi, this culture looks like crystals, but these ones are smaller, smoother, round, gelatinous, and nowhere near as prolific as the Tibi.

This culture has a mysterious past; its origins are possibly in Tibet, yet it somehow ended up in mainstream Britain for 200 years between the 18th and 20th centuries, becoming so popular it was most likely the ‘soda’ behind the old wive’s tale of ‘soda for an upset stomach’, but then it fell completely out of favour during World War 2 due to sugar rationing. Quite ironic really that its slow resurgence back into modern society is due to the kindness of the aforementioned German Culture bank, hmmm…

We brew the Ginger Beer Plant with fresh and ground ginger, organic sugar and our triple-filtered cloud juice;the result is the holy grail of ginger beer: a fizzy, spicy, refreshing and probiotic beverage – the goodness of Ginger AND probiotic flora - who would have thought a weird history lesson could taste so good?!

We are, to the best of our knowledge, the only commercial makers of this probiotic Ginger beer in New Zealand.

Coconut Tibicos

This is a sugar-free lifestyle-friendly version of the fruit Tibicos. We feed the Tibi grains 100% coconut water and in return it gives us …coconut water… but lacto-fermented with a wide spectrum probiotic content! Perfect for the Paleo or sugar-free lifestyle. Coconut tibicos has a rich tang and sometimes a light effervescence too which goes great in smoothies or juices as well as when drunk neat.

You will soon find this product in selected stores and in limited numbers at the markets we attend.

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Tepache

(Pronounced ‘tuh-PAH-chay’)

The street food of Mexico! This is the loveable black sheep of our fermented brew family – it is our only brew not made with a special culture; just fresh pineapple, raw sugar, traditional spices and cloud juice. But we love it all the same as it is fizzy, yummy, pineapple goodness!

You’ll only ever see this at the markets we attend, and only when good quality fresh pineapples are available, as Tepache is best consumed FRESH :o)

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For more information on sourcing our 'Healthy brews', see our stockists below or use the contact form at the bottom of this page.

November fermentation workshops went off with the usual bang and full bookings so if you too want to learn how to make your own cheap but delicious and healthy drinks and fermented veggies, then plan for our summer series - the second Saturday of January, February and March.

Our October workshops went off a treat to start our spring season and our next/last ones for the year are November 26th so if you're keen to learn about making your own probiotic fermented drinks or veggies, then click here for all the details.

In the meantime if you are interested in stocking our drinks yourself for retail sale, having us at an event or sourcing them for regular personal use, please contact us with the form below and tell us how we can help.

If you'd like to source a culture to make you own probiotic drinks at home you can buy live culture supplies here.

Passionate experimenters and developers of fermented foods and drinks.

We are a David and Claire, a husband & wife team that love life, laughter, science fiction, growing our own food and kayaking adventures. We are passionate about healthy living, letting ‘thy food by thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food’ as Hippocrates once wisely said.

David, a keen fisherman and lover of the great outdoors, has always been passionate about healthy living. In 2009 he took to Kombucha as an addition to his healthy diet and lifestyle and has never looked back.

Claire on the other hand, a keen touring kayaker, nature lover, film and music buff, has had a lifelong love-hate relationship with both healthy living and fast-food joints, and was thrilled to be introduced to Kombucha in 2011 by her awesome future husband. It helped her wean herself from soft drinks immediately, and along with other cultured foods and drinks contributed to fixing digestive and immune issues and regaining good health.

As passionate gardeners and science geeks we both love all aspects of brewing fermented drinks (so much experimenting and growing things), and hope to share our passion with you through our awesome range of delicious, healthy, gluten-free, dairy-free, low-sugar, raw probiotic beverages that are the perfect alternative to fizzy drinks.